Which Web Server do you prefer/use?

Hustle · Post by **Hustle** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 2:01 pm

I was just wondering which Web Server do you prefer/use?

DomC · Post by **DomC** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 2:36 pm

Apache as I have never used "Lighttpd" as I believed it was called (I'll edit if I am wrong) - I shall have to check it out.

JelvinJS7 · Post by **JelvinJS7** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 3:32 pm

I've only heard of apache

Hustle · Post by **Hustle** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 3:39 pm

I recommend Lighttpd especially for older hardware, it's super light (in my opinion) on system resources, http://www.lighttpd.net/

Dylan · Post by **Dylan** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:02 pm

Apache; comes pre-compiled more easily for windows in sets like WAMP and XAMPP

Post by **jacek** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 2:02 pm

Apache, very flexible and used pretty much everywhere. At the moment I don't need anything more lightweight but if I did I think I would try nginx first because it has a cool name

JelvinJS7 · Post by **JelvinJS7** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 5:19 pm

jacek wrote:I think I would try nginx first because it has a cool name

I would say that's a bad strategy, but there was an episode of a show wgere a person made a lot of money via stock from a business she chose cuz ut rhymed with "pickle"

libeco · Post by **libeco** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:06 pm

Nginx is quite fast, it's just a pity you can't really change anything unless you have full access to it. htaccess won't work.

Post by **jacek** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:07 pm

libeco wrote:Nginx is quite fast, it's just a pity you can't really change anything unless you have full access to it. htaccess won't work.

I think that's kind of the point of it, Apache has to check the folder the file is in and all folders above it for .htaccess files, it's actually a pretty slow process.

If I ever were to go for something designed to be super-lightweight it would need to have little to no flexibility

I think the best use for somethign like that is as a file server only, for example I would have img.betterphp.co.uk on a separate physical server for all the images.

libeco · Post by **libeco** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:19 pm

Just using a subdomain for your images, already will improve the speed for your users, simply because a browser cannot handle that many connections to one website. Somehow a subdomain is not seen as the same as the regular website.

Post by **jacek** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 2:16 pm

libeco wrote:Just using a subdomain for your images, already will improve the speed for your users, simply because a browser cannot handle that many connections to one website. Somehow a subdomain is not seen as the same as the regular website.

Well yeah that too, but this is a server discussion

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